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far below, transit workers and teachers or the firemen and police who rushed to one57 when hurricane sandy tipped its construction crane and set it dangling dangerously over midtown, shutting down one of the busiest streets in the city for a week. the owners of one57's apartments will not be paying their full share of property taxes either, thanks to a dodgy deal slipped into a housing bill by state senator martin golden and other legislators in albany. >> it's the normal bill that we do every several years to give our condos and co-ops the tax abatements that they get and that they require. >> normal? what senator golden is really doing is carving out a tax break for five luxury properties, including extell's one57. state senator liz krueger called him out on it. >> this bill, as i said, has some important things in it, but it's also a perfect example of what goes wrong in the wheeling dealing of the backrooms of albany. >> in exchange for the developer putting $5.9 million into affordable housing in the bronx, pocket change given the prices on billionaires' row, those wealthy pied-À-ter
far below, transit workers and teachers or the firemen and police who rushed to one57 when hurricane sandy tipped its construction crane and set it dangling dangerously over midtown, shutting down one of the busiest streets in the city for a week. the owners of one57's apartments will not be paying their full share of property taxes either, thanks to a dodgy deal slipped into a housing bill by state senator martin golden and other legislators in albany. >> it's the normal bill that we do...
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here we are post hurricane sandy. everyone is saying, well, maybe this is going to be our wake-up call and right now in new york city, the debate is over how much to increase fares in public transit and they -- the metrotransity authority wants to increase the price of riding a subway and the price of riding trains quite a bit, and so how does this make sense? we're supposedly having a wake-up call and we're making it harder for people to use public transit and that's because we don't have the resources that we need. >> you've been out on the devastation, why? >> i'm writing a book and the documentary to go with it and we were filming in the rockaways in staten island and in red hook, and also in the relief hubs where you just see a tremendous number of volunteers organized by occupy wall street. they call it occupy sandy. >> really? >> what i found is that the generosity is tremendous. i saw a friend last night and i asked her whether she'd been involved in the hurricane relief. they have my car, i hope they get it b
here we are post hurricane sandy. everyone is saying, well, maybe this is going to be our wake-up call and right now in new york city, the debate is over how much to increase fares in public transit and they -- the metrotransity authority wants to increase the price of riding a subway and the price of riding trains quite a bit, and so how does this make sense? we're supposedly having a wake-up call and we're making it harder for people to use public transit and that's because we don't have the...
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school in brooklyn, and rico and frankie blancaflor of montclair, new jersey, survivors of hurricane sandy. you will never forget what happened in an orchard in afghanistan to lieutenant dan berschinski, and to troy orion tom, the navajo indian from shiprock, new mexico. you'll discover how corporate tough guys "neutron jack" welch and "chainsaw al" dunlap modeled the ceo of the future, blazing away during the high noon of capitalism at the middle class and working people. here is how america lost its way. but you'll also see why the only practical response to what's happened to us is for people to fight back. that may sound like a cliche, perhaps, but bob herbert has seen it happen before, and comes home from his journey believing it can happen again. he was a columnist for "the new york times" for 18 years, a champion of working people and the middle class like his hard-working parents in new jersey. we're good friends and kindred spirits, as well as colleagues at the schumann media center, from which he is presently on leave working on a major documentary. bob, good to see you again. >>
school in brooklyn, and rico and frankie blancaflor of montclair, new jersey, survivors of hurricane sandy. you will never forget what happened in an orchard in afghanistan to lieutenant dan berschinski, and to troy orion tom, the navajo indian from shiprock, new mexico. you'll discover how corporate tough guys "neutron jack" welch and "chainsaw al" dunlap modeled the ceo of the future, blazing away during the high noon of capitalism at the middle class and working people....
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sandy did not only destroy the homes of democrats and not republicans. the terrible drought that has gripped the great plains and our nation's bread basket has not only gone after liberal farmers and ranchers, it's gone after all of us. the point is that climate change will affect all americans no matter what your political beliefs, your religious beliefs, your race, class, creed, et cetera, okay. and in the end the only way we're going to deal with this issue is if we come together as a county and have a serious conversation not about is it real, but what can we do about it, okay. and i think that the effort to try to de-politicize this issue so it doesn't just become this knee-jerk-- identity politics. i'm a democrat, therefore i believe in climate change. i'm a republican, therefore i think climate change is a hoax. this is crazy, okay. i mean, again the climate system doesn't care. >> but the realists in politics will say that that's unrealistic, in fact former republican congressman sherwood boehlert has said that the best way for this to happen is
sandy did not only destroy the homes of democrats and not republicans. the terrible drought that has gripped the great plains and our nation's bread basket has not only gone after liberal farmers and ranchers, it's gone after all of us. the point is that climate change will affect all americans no matter what your political beliefs, your religious beliefs, your race, class, creed, et cetera, okay. and in the end the only way we're going to deal with this issue is if we come together as a county...
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look at what happened with sandy hook. look at what happened with hurricane sandy and climate change. we are capable of turning away because we get bored with one thing and need the next. >> at the time of the sandy hook shootings, you wrote about the learned helplessness that seemed to permeate that situation. talk about that a moment. >> we have had the unfortunate experience of being outraged, being brazilians, trying to get something done, and watching as the dysfunctional system that we are forced to live under destroys momentum and creates stasis, or adds power to the already powerful, rather than enabling reform. we have, for example, on capitol hill, a system which is built on the need to create ads, narratives, phony reality about members who are running for office. and they need to finance that because our television stations make a killing on that. especially in the swing states. and so the only way they can finance it is by doing quid pro quo deals with special interests. so when the newtown tragedy happened, m
look at what happened with sandy hook. look at what happened with hurricane sandy and climate change. we are capable of turning away because we get bored with one thing and need the next. >> at the time of the sandy hook shootings, you wrote about the learned helplessness that seemed to permeate that situation. talk about that a moment. >> we have had the unfortunate experience of being outraged, being brazilians, trying to get something done, and watching as the dysfunctional...
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whether it's the collectivity of, like, "hey, listen, we all came out and helped during hurricane sandy." if it's the collectivity of, "listen, i come from this community. in this community we have pride. in this community we try to help each other." i think that there's always been a number of stories that contest and work against this idea of this sort of crazy individualism in america. and both have always been present. and i think that there's a great calling. there's a great combat between the two of them. and i guess part of me thinks that collectivity and helping your society and being civic-mindedness is as much a part of what it means to be an american as being this big peak winner, this peak person at the top. >> but that former story's not the one we've been hearing punctuated or accentuated the last 40 years, right? >> well, no, i mean, i think we hear it in different places. but do we hear it with the biggest megaphone? no. the biggest megaphones want to talk about the person on top. they want to talk about the hero, the winner. but the little megaphones, you're in a librar
whether it's the collectivity of, like, "hey, listen, we all came out and helped during hurricane sandy." if it's the collectivity of, "listen, i come from this community. in this community we have pride. in this community we try to help each other." i think that there's always been a number of stories that contest and work against this idea of this sort of crazy individualism in america. and both have always been present. and i think that there's a great calling. there's a...
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this was just days after hurricane sandy. roads were washed out. we had to have, you know, caravans trying to get people to the polls. people stationed at bridges that had been washed out persuading them to go out of their way to vote which i think produced that last 19 votes we needed. so i'll be ever grateful to the woman who did that. you don't know what's going to win in elections, so you do everything. you have to have the so-called air war, television, the ground game, what working families and our allies did. you put it all together and sometimes when you have a good candidate who's willing to be forthright and then you have an opponent who decides, "ah, i'm going to kill her with this," it makes, it's a perfect storm. >> and here's her opponent's ad -- >> shadowy new york city money groups calling themselves campaign finance reformers spending hundreds of thousands on neck tiff attacks. rewarding their candidates like cece tkaczyk who pushed their agenda. taxpayer-funded campaigns which could cost us over $200 million per election. george a
this was just days after hurricane sandy. roads were washed out. we had to have, you know, caravans trying to get people to the polls. people stationed at bridges that had been washed out persuading them to go out of their way to vote which i think produced that last 19 votes we needed. so i'll be ever grateful to the woman who did that. you don't know what's going to win in elections, so you do everything. you have to have the so-called air war, television, the ground game, what working...